Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-04
LOCAL NE w 8.
RrAef Mention.

Brief Mention.
 Card envelopes with black edge at Dor mans.
 There is large fleet of vessels in the har- bor.
 George Lowndes of Foote street was ar rested yesterday for violation of the Sunday law.
 Fifty Englishmen took out their first papers last evening under the auspices of the Brit ish Naturalization club.
 Mrs. L. c. Peckham, of Middletown, has been secured by the Windsor avenue Congre- gatiOnal church, Hartford, as leading soprano.
 The monthly meeting of the Home for the Friendless will take place Wednesday after noon, Oct. 9th, at half-past 8 o'clock at the Home.
 The restaurant fixtures at Howes', Savln Rock, will be sold at auction this forenoon at 10 o'clock Beecher, auctioneer. See adver- tisement.
 The Jewish Feast of Weeks or Succoth be- gan yesterday and will continue eight days. Appropriate services will be held in the synagogues.
 The regular monthly meeting of the Wo- mans Church Missionary association will be held in Trinity building, Temple street, this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
 Ladies are invited to attend the opening Of trimmed bonnets and roand hats on to nor row and Thursday at Miss A. V. Byrnes', 121 Orange street, corner of Court street.
 A colored man named Stanley was arrested last night for attempting to defraud City market merchants He halls from Baltimore and claims that he was Grand Army man and steward on George Gould's yacht.
 Mrs. K. R. Malloy, who has been for the past several years in the millinery business on Chapel street above High, is now with Miss A. V. Byrnes on Orange street, where she will be pleased to see all her customers.
 The Yale National bank scaled down it's semi-annuaI dividend to per cent, instead of the usual 1-2 per cent, by which course the surplus of the bank remains as hereto fore and it's loss by the Wheeler failure will not otherwise be felt.
 Mrs. Susan, widow of the late Theodore Elmer, died yesterday morning at her resi- dence in East Hartford at the age of eighty two years. She was charitable woman and an active and consistent member of the First Congregational church.
 Five days of foggy, rainy, heavy, drizzly, rainy weather, with only now and then faint attempt to clear off. The farmers will get their wells filled, though, and the frog ponds will be full. The umbrella trade has been driving also, while cases of lost um- brellas are numerous.
 Frederick w. Green of Milford, who died on Saturday at his fathers residence, was night operator at the Milford depot about two years ago when the hotel stables were nearly burned and over-exerted himself that night, since which time his health has de clined. He was very worthy young man.
 There was no election in New Haven and Bridgeport yesterday, whereat the Standard rejoices and exclaimed: "Brethren of New Haven, let us shake hands and thank our lucky stars for our exemption. Here all is peace and serenity; the wild awning flaps in the wind and the untutored Italian turns his peanut roaster unscared."
 The New York Evening Post, commenting on President Clark's energy in abolishing grade crossings, says: "This is SO contrary to the policy of the average corporation that it seems too good to be true,' but there ap- pears to be no doubt about it, and if the company lives up to it's promises, it will earn a most enviabIe reputation"